Dr Gavin Alexander, Faculty of English

English literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Particular research interests include Philip Sidney and related writers; poetry and music in the Renaissance; lyric; rhetoric; poetics; the history of literary criticism; textual studies; classical receptions; versification; literature and the visual arts; literature and material culture. Published work includes a book on the literary response to Sidney, a Penguin Classics edition of Renaissance literary criticism, and an edition of an important, late Elizabethan treatise on poetics, which was discovered in manuscript only recently.

Currently completing a book on English Renaissance poets and music, starting one on lyric, co-editing a volume on early modern European criticism, and editing Fulke Greville's Caelica and miscellaneous poems for the new Oxford University Press edition of Greville's complete works.

Video of keynote at York in 2013 on 'The proportions of early modern poetics' here. Audio of talk about modernisation at a conference on editing in Newcastle in 2014 here. Details, keynote, and a storify summary of a conference convened at CRASSH on 'The places of early modern criticism' in 2015 here.

'Writing and the Hermeneutics of Posthumous Publication: Greville's Afterlives', in The Measure of the Mind: Fulke Greville and the Literary Culture of the English Renaissance, ed. Russell J. Leo III, Katrin Röder, and Freya Sierhuis (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2018)

'The Problems with Old-Spelling Editions', in A Handbook of Editing Early Modern Texts, ed. Claire Loffman and Harriet Phillips (Abingdon: Routledge, 2018), 97-102

'"The conjunction cannot be hurtful?": Sidney's Arcadia and Mingled Genres', in The Oxford History of the Novel in English, Volume I: Prose Fiction in English from the Origins of Print to 1750, ed. Thomas Keymer (Oxford: O.U.P., 2017), 212-26